(06-26-2025, 12:08 AM)BoredAssistant Wrote: Nico press conference:
https://youtu.be/mqjbTyMVa54?si=FionhbvWgvJqknfT
There's a part here where he talks about the playstyle and how they'll be a lot different offensively than what we're used to seeing. (duh, we don't have a Point-God)
But this goes back to what I've been saying about this old school position label nonsense. Offensively, it won't matter what you call yourself. Basketball player works, hooper, shooter, whatever. There will be a lot of pick-up basketball look to it in a sense, a lot of flow and ball movement, until of course you get to clutch time or ATO situations when you run certain sets.
Defensively you'll need to fit into the system. Sooooo much switching in the NBA these days that whoever you guard, or start the possession guarding, is not who you'll end up with at the end of the possession 9/10 times. I think they'll lean into being a versatile, long, switch heavy team that funnels to the Big(s), having potentially one or two of Flagg, PJW, AD, Lively, Gaff as a rim deterrent every possession is definitely something. As long as you can keep up with your rotations, you can get on the floor for the Mavs.